HOUSE VOTES TO RELEASE 'THE MEMO'

The House Intelligence Committee on Monday evening voted to release a classified memo circulating in Congress that purportedly reveals government surveillance abuses. 

The vote was announced to reporters by California Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the committee, who called it a “very sad day, I think, in the history of this committee.” The motion passed on a party-line basis, he said. 

President Trump now has five days to decide whether he has any objections before the memo can be publicly released.